Win an Ultimate Foodie Experience to Oregon

Oh, Oregon. How I love your carefree attitude, tree hugging-spirit, and panache for crafting delicious foods and beverages. Mmm. Mmm. During both trips to Oregon (once in 2010 and the first in 2007) to say I ate well is an understatement.

I recently learned about a contest to win an ultimate foodie experience to Oregon sponsored by Travel Oregon, the state’s tourism marketing agency. Although I want to win, I will share the specifics with you.Win the Ultimate Foodie Experience to Oregon
Win an exclusive four-day, three-night Oregon Bounty Wanderfest experience. Included is a five-course chef’s table dinner at Le Pigeon Restaurant in Portland plus two of these options for their own Oregon Wanderfeast: head out on a pier and catch Dungeness crab, be an artisan cheese maker for a day, discover the wineries of the Columbia Gorge, create spring ales with a craft brewer, learn the art of mixology with artisan spirits or stalk a steelhead on a wild and scenic river. These all sound awesome and I would love to do all!

A winner, randomly selected from all submittals on Dec. 3, 2010, will have the opportunity to bring three friends or family members to accompany him or her on their culinary adventure, scheduled for April 7 – 10, 2011. The prize includes the chosen itinerary, airfare on Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and lodging by Best Western. For a complete list of celebration information, contest rules and to enter, visit www.TravelOregon.com/Bounty.

Good luck!

Purple Carrots at the Portland Farmers Market, Ore.

Oregon Bounty Wanderfest, Aug. 23 – Nov. 30, 2010
Aug. 23 kicked off Oregon Bounty Wanderfest in which chefs throughout the state will experience the culinary passions they enjoy outside the kitchen. Video crews will document the experiences expected to range from fly fishing for steelhead to foraging for botanical ingredients on the Oregon Trail. Videos of the adventures will be posted on Travel Oregon’s culinary travel planning website www.TravelOregon.com/Bounty which allows foodies to plan their culinary vacation to Oregon. Oregon Bounty Wanderfest runs through Nov. 30 and celebrates Oregon’s culinary abundance and the harvest season.

Originally from Buffalo, N.Y., a hiking trail led Jennifer Huber, aka: Solo Travel Girl, to a career path in tourism. She has worked in the tourism industry for more than 20 years including 10 years with a park management company in Yellowstone, Death Valley and Everglades National Park. She currently lives in Southwest Florida, and maintains this travel blog with the goal of inspiring others to travel alone, not lonely.